PRISONER ESCAPES.
BREAKS CUSTODY AT ASHBURTON WHILE ABOARD EXPRESS, (Per Press Association.) ASHBURTON, September 14. A prisoner escaped from the northbound express yesterday afternoon at about 3.40 while the train was stationary near the Ashburton Cemetery. The escapee / was last heard of at five o’clock yesterday when he was inquiring fior clothes and a bicycle a mile from the railway station. The ponce are still searching, but they have not revealed tho identity of the prisoner, who was recently sentenced at Dunedin and was proceeding in the custody of a single constable to Paparoa Prison. The escapee is described as being of light "build, height sft din, and unshaven. THE ESCAPEE. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, September 14. The prisoner who escaped at Ashburton was William Herbert Chapman, aged fifty-on©. He was under sentence of six months’ imprisonment for the theft of a bicycle and clothing.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16530, 14 September 1921, Page 7
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